Time Travel: 2014

Eve Carly considered it: "Just sending the admission invitation letter by email? This would be too blasphemous for LIN HUI.

For a genius like LIN HUI, his mailbox will be filled with all kinds of information from all aspects. If you send an admission invitation by email, your invitation letter will most likely be drowned in the ocean of information. I feel that to be on the safe side it is better for you to send someone to go to China in person. "

Ewald Cherry: "I have also considered the situation you mentioned. I plan to invite you personally and set out soon."

Eve Carly: "You want to go in person when it's obvious that an employee can handle it? Are you sure you're not going on a government-funded trip?"

Ewald Cherry: "How is that possible? Do you think I am one of those scumbag members of the National Assembly?

After all, I also study natural language processing algorithms.

For someone who has been immersed in the algorithm world for a long time.

The appearance of LIN HUI is like a dazzling light suddenly appearing in the dark and distant wilderness.

In the subfield of NLP text summarization, no matter how high he is, it is not too much to praise him.

Who would miss such an opportunity to meet such a genius in algorithms?

And I feel that LIN HUI is not only a genius in algorithms, but also a generalist in various disciplines.

Natural language processing is a typical interdisciplinary subject.

Being able to figure out a cool algorithm like generative text summarization doesn't make sense that he's not proficient in other things besides algorithms.

He should also be involved in things involving language, mathematics, programming and other aspects.

It is no exaggeration to say that this LIN HUI should be an encyclopedic generalist, similar to Aristotle.

Being able to get up close and personal with such a character is a rare opportunity. "

Eve Carly: "Haha, if I hadn't known that you haven't published any academic results in almost two years, I would have almost believed your lies."

Ewald Cherry: "Damn it, it was discovered! Ahem, but who can say no to such an opportunity? You know, Chinese food is very delicious, Chinese..."

Eve Carly: "Stop! If you go there, where will you find him? That distant eastern country is too big and there are many people. How can you find him if you don't have any clues?"

Ewald Cherry: “It’s not like I don’t have any clues at all, I know the address of LIN HUI.

He filled in the patent mailing address when applying for the patent, and I just followed this address to search for it. "

Eve Carley: I remember isn’t the mailing address information entered in the patent application confidential?

Ewald Cherry: “Naive, there are two sets of rules in this world.

Most people only see the rules on the surface, but there are other rules beneath the rules.

Although the information of the person applying for the patent is theoretically confidential, this is only in theory.

There is no reason the (U.S.) Patent Office would keep a foreign applicant's patent mailing address confidential.

Even if it is the mailing address left by a foreigner applying for a patent.

If we are interested in this, they will more or less reveal certain information to us.

After all, we at MIT invest so many patents every year to take care of their business.

This is indeed the case. It took almost no effort for me to find the patent mailing address that LIN HUI left when filing the patent application.

After my verification, this address is the same as the patent mailing address left in the subsequent European patent application.

Multi-party authentication should roughly determine the reliability of this address.

Although the address LINHUI filled in is not accurate enough, it doesn't matter. We can just go to the North Territory directly.

As for the specific location of LIN HUI, I have asked my friends in China to help find out. "

Eve Carly: "I think you are completely buried in the Ministry of Affairs, but you are more suitable to join the Central Intelligence Bureau."

Ewald Cherry: "Thanks for the compliment!"

Eve Carly rolled her eyes at Ewald Cherry: "Are you going to leave soon? How to deal with the visa matter?"

Ewald Cherry: "I apply for an academic visit visa directly. The application process only takes about half a day to be approved."

Eve Carly: “Are you going to apply for a group visa for an academic visit alone??”

Ewald Cherry: "Who said I would go alone? Your text summarization algorithm team will also go with me."

This news surprised Eve Carly.

Although I have always admired LIN HUI, I didn't want him to pay homage to her face to face.

I have just been severely ravaged in the field of algorithms. Isn’t it self-defeating to go now?

Eve Carly was not as excited as Ewald Cherry expected, but instead felt a little lonely.

Eve Carly: "What are we going to do?"

Ewald Cherry: “Don’t be so discouraged, okay? Although you are temporarily behind, your team’s previous results are obvious to all.

Being overtaken in a corner is also a very common thing in the field of scientific research.

From an outsider's perspective, what you have to do now is not to follow the technology.

Instead, you should go and relax and adjust your mentality.

Perhaps in that magical land in the east, you can get more thoughts about the future. "

This is indeed the truth, but Eve Carly still feels that she shouldn't go.

So I randomly made a lame excuse and said, "Let the other members of the group go with you. I don't speak Chinese."

Ewald Cherry: "What does it matter if you don't know Chinese? I don't know Chinese either.

But this doesn’t matter at all. How can any Chinese scientific researcher not know English?

Even if a junior high school student knows a few words in English, it is hard to imagine how much energy Chinese people put into learning English.

Sometimes I even feel a little intimidated, they know us far better than we know them..."

Ewald Cherry continued: "In short, none of you members of the text summarization algorithm team may not go, but you must go!"

Eve Carly asked puzzledly: "Why do you say that?"

Ewald Cherry: "First, because you are very beautiful. Even with an extremely critical eye, your appearance is outstanding, and your body proportions are perfect...

You will be a beautiful sight in our visiting team.

Second, because you are the backbone of the summary algorithm team, if you have the opportunity to communicate with LIN HUI, your professional ability should be easier than others to understand the essence of LIN HUI's ideas.

The third reason is also the most important reason, because the LIN HUI on the other side of the ocean seems to be interested in you.

Maybe we can get twice the result with half the effort if we have you as our companions? "

Eve Carly: "You mean LIN HUI is very interested in me? Where to start?"

Ewald Cherry: "Have you not paid attention to recent developments? LIN HUI has filed several patent acquisition applications on the largest patent trading website in the United States.

One of these patents is the one you applied for when you were 18.

It was precisely because you just mentioned this matter that I suddenly remembered it. "

Eve Carly: "Are you talking about the patent "A New Method for Text Judgment, Screening and Comparison"?

That patent is an algorithm patent in the subdivision field of natural language processing ‘word meaning screening’.

Word meaning discrimination used to be a very important research direction in natural language processing.

But these were all seven or eight years ago.

Precisely because of the attention it received, many universities in the United States devoted a certain amount of energy to research involving word meaning discrimination.

As of today, there is not much to research in the subdivision field of word meaning screening.

Except for a few people who are still delving into the direction of vocabulary identification in professional fields, almost no one is doing this direction.

For most scientific researchers, this is already a very old research direction. "

Ewald Cherry: "You mean to say that LIN HUI is trying to dig holes for future generations by re-proposing an ancient direction, and trying to lead others into the wrong technical direction?"

Eve Carley: “Maybe, anyway, this kind of ‘burning the bridge across the river and then building a bridge in the wrong direction’ is a common thing in the scientific community.

But do you think it is necessary for LIN HUI to do this? He was already way ahead. "

Ewald Cherry: "Perhaps your patent can have a magical effect on vocabulary screening in professional fields?"

Eve Carly: "It's impossible. When I studied that patent, even from today's perspective, I could only process some simple texts, and it was impossible to deal with those professional vocabulary.

If it weren't for the idea of ​​​​that configuration, there is a certain degree of innovation, which is in line with the innovative principle of patents.

I feel like I couldn’t even apply for this patent back then. "

Ewald Cherry thought for a while and said: "So you think it was the configuration in your patent that attracted LIN HUI's attention?"

“Although this patent had certain innovations in configuration, these are all things of the past.

Technology is developing very fast, and many technologies that were developed one or two years ago are now outdated.

Not to mention the technology from seven or eight years ago.

The most critical thing is that the algorithm patent was not considered advanced when it was proposed.

All in all, the patent back then is of no use today.

Such patents may have some reference value for laypeople who have never conducted NLP research.

And LIN HUI has even made a breakthrough in text summarization, one of the most classic problems in NLP. Why would you be interested in this kind of theoretical research for introductory NLP?

I now seriously doubt the reliability of your source. Are you sure LIN HUI really wants to acquire that patent? I really can't figure it out.

I feel like this patent is given away for free and no one wants it. After all, you have to pay a fee on a regular basis. "

Ewald Cherry: "Well, if you really want to give it away, please consider me first. After all, this is a patent worth seven hundred thousand dollars."

Eve Carley: "Seven hundred thousand dollars? Are you sure you're not kidding?"

Ewald Cherry: “Maybe I can joke, but real money doesn’t joke.

If you don’t believe it, you can check it out on the patent trading website. LIN HUI even offered a price of US$700,000 for your patent.

If you really want to sell.

You only need to upload all legal documents related to "A New Method for Text Judgment, Screening and Comparison" on the patent trading website.

After these legal documents are reviewed, you can conduct transactions with LIN HUI.

The transaction is also very simple. On the purchase interface issued by LIN HUI, you only need to click to confirm the transaction.

After that, you just need to wait for the transaction funds to arrive in your bank account.

The whole process didn't even take ten minutes.

If this is a 'joke', I wish this 'joke' would happen to me.

Although I have not had much academic achievements in recent years, I still applied for a lot of patents in the early years..."